{"id":344,"date":"2013-03-14T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=344"},"modified":"2013-03-14T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T20:30:04","slug":"friday-fun-the-altos-lament-zina-goldrich-marcy-heisler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/03\/14\/friday-fun-the-altos-lament-zina-goldrich-marcy-heisler\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: The Alto&#8217;s Lament (Zina Goldrich, Marcy Heisler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently obsessing &#8211; and I really do mean obsessing &#8211; about every Shakespeare-related opera ever written, but I am trying to resist the urge to write about every single one of them here this week, because I&#8217;m reasonably certain that nobody in the world is quite so fascinated by them right now as I am.\u00a0 Instead, I bring you this rather amusing bit of Broadway send-uppery that speaks to my heart right now, all about the sad lot of the alto.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hLdWmq0W0KM&amp;version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0]<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it brilliant?\u00a0 I love the way she really is singing the alto line in every one of those songs, and in all honesty, those low notes are fabulous.<\/p>\n<p>(and should my favourite choir director be reading this&#8230; well, I wouldn&#8217;t stoop to leaving hints in my blog, of course.  That would be wrong.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently obsessing &#8211; and I really do mean obsessing &#8211; about every Shakespeare-related opera ever written, but I am trying to resist the urge to write about every single one of them here this week, because I&#8217;m reasonably certain that nobody in the world is quite so fascinated by them right now as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,468,507,517,789],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-altos-lament","tag-marcy-heisler","tag-music-theatre","tag-natalie-weiss","tag-zina-goldrich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}